What is the best passageway to transport betta fish within their bowls?
I moved into and apartment with my fiance, but my two betta fish are still at my old house. I would like to transport both of them at one and the same time by car to my new apartment, but I am worried about the hose sloshing or them being traumatized. Any suggestions?
Put them into individual Tupperware containers, or gallon ice-cream buckets, with a snap-on lid. Leave a couple of inches of airspace. Wrap them in a blanket or something to protect from heat changes. Try not to shake them up too much enroute. When you arrive, let the container sit quietly on the table for awhile, afterwards gently put them into their bowls and try to not disturb them much til they rest a bit. After a few hours, offer a food pellet, if he take it he's fine.
I don't recommend leaving them in the bowls for transport.
Either get a couple of those plastic fish loads that pet stores pack them in, or use carry-out drink cups.
Bags: The bag should be about one-fourth to one-third full of hose down, and the rest air. Close it with a rubber band at the top. If you're going outstandingly far, double-bag the fish. If it's cold outside, put the bag in something insulated. Bag respectively betta separately, of course.
Cups: Get a couple of the cups with snap-on plastic lids from any place that sell coffee, iced tea, soft drinks, etc. to go. I like the foam cups used for hot drinks, because they insulate the fish from cold or hot air contained by transit. Fill the cup about half-full of water from the fish bowl, put the fish in, sunhat it and and make sure the lid is on securely. Keep the cups adjectives in transit so water won't spill or slosh out. If your car have cup-holders, they are perfect for this.
Empty the bowls of water for the trip. The water will spill whether you don't. Then set them up with new water as soon as you bring back to your new place. Let the fish, with the water they traveled within, sit next to the bowls in an open container until the fresh water in the bowls and the travel water are duplicate temperature, then put the fish back contained by the bowls.
Welcome home, fish! Mazel tov!
Answers: Put them in a small enclosed container,( so hose down or the Betta won't splash out). Place the container in a sturdy bucket, or plastic box. Make sure it is deeper then the container the Betta is within. Pad the area very well between the container the Betta's are contained by and the box or whatever with wadded up plastic bags you achieve when you check out at Wal Mart, Target, Publix, etc or towels. Place them in a flat tight spot in your auto where the box holding them want slip and slide.
If you want to you can open up the top of the containers for a few minutes the Betta's are in when you stop along the way to agree to them get fresh air. They can go for a couple of hours contained by a sealed container before needing fresh nouns. Once at your destination take out the containers the Betta's are in and take the tops bad and let the Betta's recover from the trip for a while as they will most likely be stressed out. Then a few hours then or the next day you can put them back into their tank.
If it is a short distance, cover tops of bowls with plastic wrap, place in cardboard box or styrofoam cooler with "peanuts" or shredded weekly to cushion.
If it is a longer journey, please email me.
